There's only a handful of games worth playing that a 10 year old mid-range computer can't play anyway. I don't see the point of upgrading for Indianna Jones or COD.
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I thought it was one of the better LTT videos for sure. Torvalds is much better on camera than he claims to be and it was interesting to see his outlook on a broad range of questions.
Yeah I checked myself and Bazzite has an Nvidia version now. Installed it last night and it is working great. No Steam Machine needed it seems. The Frame does appeal to me still.
Using 1440p, I've not had any major issues with 8GB. It has been a bottleneck that has forced me to turn some resolution/texture settings down though. Indiana Jones is an example that stands out for running poorly, but I'm not buying a new system for that game to run better.
I'd argue it's also for people who want sleep and resume on a PC for that console experience. I have a 3070ti system, which is older and mid now but still smokes the steam machine, and I'll be "downgrading" to this because I consider quick resume an upgraded experience. Most games I play don't even need that power.
Kids want to play what their friends/community are playing.
Looking at the sheer number of nominations e33 has gotten, I would be absolutely shocked if it didn't win game of the year.
It's defined as "Recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields."
While that's pretty nebulous a definition on its own, the fact that seemingly every other creative and technical field has its own award category, and E33 is nominated for most of them, speaks to it being a shoe-in for the GOTY category.
I'm not disagreeing. Epic's 12% would still be hugely profitable for Valve.
True that text is small files, but some Skyrim saves are easily in the dozens of MB for example. I'm sure you multiply that by millions and it adds up. Surely them needing to store many copies of the game files themselves is a larger file size footprint for them though.
Lol yep they're an extremely wealthy company with that 30%. But it seems like almost every other storefront operates under those margins for digital sales (not just in gaming). I do value the cloud saves, I think those would actually add up a bit for their storage requirements as well as hosting all of the game files in presumably many locations globally.
15%, they'd still be a multibillion dollar company
Well, I agree that the writing is really good. But the gameplay hook is what really makes it a great game tome.
I think economics would basically push things that way. If most people cannot or will not buy the latest hardware, the investment of 600 million dollars or more into a AAAA game that hardly anyone can run won't happen.